Iphone, I tweet, Ice-cream! Who tweeted it first?
How to credit when credit is due on Twitter?
Say you see a funny phrase on Twitter as I did yester day and you want to retweet it. This phrase was so cute but it had no RT prefix crediting someone in specific.
I tried to search for the term on www.twitter.com, but although I got page after page with hits there is no immediate way to find the first mention. The tweets containing this phrase is ordered with the latest mention first, but it would take me endless clicking page per page to get to the first, if ever.
Desired search fucntions on Twitter.
Two things really. As indicated above getting a search of say the 100 first mentions for a phrase would be great.
Another variant on the same theme would be to search for tweets on a specific date and time of day.
Why? If not for anything else, to be able to give credit to the right person. If you come up with something really catchy, someone else would not take the credit as easily.
Here is a twitterism that I thought I came up with first. But after doing some searches on on the internet I found several that predates mine.
However, my friend Kathy Licari countered on Facebook, which must be a first:
“I don’t Twitter, therefore I am…..not?”
Ha, ha!!!
